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The collection's correspondence files offer an exciting assemblage of material. At the center are exchanges between contributors and the editorial staff, but there are also letters from readers, submissions from would-be-contributors, and—more often than one might expect—complaints from writers about the 's reviews of their books. In a letter to one such displeased author, editor Karl Miller explains, "Once a book goes out for review we feel we should accept what we are presented with except in cases of factual error and of what you call 'viciousness.'" Letters such as this illuminate the magazine's editorial policies and serve as a forceful reminder that a literary career is not for the faint of heart.

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The collection's correspondence files offer an exciting assemblage of material. At the center are exchanges between contributors and the editorial staff, but there are also letters from readers, submissions from would-be-contributors, and—more often than one might expect—complaints from writers about the 's reviews of their books. In a letter to one such displeased author, editor Karl Miller explains, "Once a book goes out for review we feel we should accept what we are presented with except in cases of factual error and of what you call 'viciousness.'" Letters such as this illuminate the magazine's editorial policies and serve as a forceful reminder that a literary career is not for the faint of heart.

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But perhaps the most famous ad in the New York Review of Books never ran at all. In Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall,” Allen’s Alvy Singer overhears a heady first-date conversation, and decodes the literary mystique behind the personals thusly: